St Louis 16 patch finished

I love the vibrancy of this quilt. It's such a happy, warm looking quilt as we head into autumn here. The nights are getting chillier and the mornings cooler. I actually turned my electric blanket on the other night for the first time this year! 

I used the tutorial from Steffani. I just love her version of it.  In mine,  I have used mainly Chicopee with a little bit of Hope Valley and a couple of DS fabrics from Spotlight. The binding is a raspberry fabric from Spotlight.    I quilted it in a cross hatch pattern to go with the squares.

For the back I used a DS print from Spotlight with 4 of the blocks that didn't make the cut for the front. 

I think it even gets the seal of approval from the kitten!

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Finish Along - Quarter 2 goals.

I must say I am loving this Finish Along...it is certainly helping me get through my big list of WIPs.  It's good to have the goal of finishing all these quilts and seeing that I am not the only one with a big pile of unfinished quilts. My list for this quarter is basically a repeat of my list from Quarter 1, but I have excluded my bee blocks. I just can't get enthused to sew these together! 

I want to finish my Equilateral triangle quilt that I started at Sewing Summit.

My Star Surround Quilt that I started as a QAL with Melissa

And my St Louis 16 patch

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A Lovely Year of Finishes - April goal

The next quilt I really want to get finished is my Chicopee St Louis 16 patch quilt. I think out of all of Denyse Schmidt's ranges this and Hope Valley have to be my favs. In fact so many of the Chicopee colours are similar to the Hope Valley ones.  

This photo was taken back in January. That green, green grass is brown at the moment as we have been desperate for rain. Finally started raining today....yay It's such a lovely sound listening to it on the roof at the moment.

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Finish Along Quarter 1 completed

So how did I do?  I'm pleased to say I got 3 of my WIPs completed. I had 10 on my original list, which was a little ambitious to finish in one quarter, but if I keep up this rate, I will have all my WIPs done by the end of the year.  I was hoping to get to my bee blocks, but didn't even go near them!

My most favourite finish of all my quilts has to be my Tula Pink quilt.  I love the colours in this, the cute little blocks, and the quilting.

Another finish for the quarter was my Kitchen Window quilt which has been waiting and waiting and waiting patiently to be finished

And my met recent finish is my Granny Squares quilt  which was also started a couple of years ago.

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A Lovely Year of Finishes: Granny Square quilt completed

I started this a couple of years ago. Anna from Around the Quilt Block organised a granny square swap. There were 3 background colorways we could choose from...Snow, Charcoal and White. I thought the bright colours would pop on the Charcoal so went for this colour. We had to make 8 blocks in each background colour and put our names down for 2 block colours, so we wouldn't double up on colours. We swapped with 23 other people, so there are 24 unique blocks that we would receive in return.  These are the blocks I made...

This quilt has sat languishing waiting to be finished for a couple of years now. I finally have gotten around to finishing it.  I made an extra 3 granny squares as three I received were far too small to use on the front, so these were relegated to the back. I used a Denyse Schmidt grey spot and a Robert Kaufman green for the back. The binding is Tula Pink Parisville in a red and purple.

I just did an all-over stipple in a Superior thread to blend in with the Charcoal, and then did machine binding, as I was too lazy to spend the next day or two hand sewing the binding down.

   

The poor old girls don't have much to eat at the moment...we are desperate for rain.


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Sewing Room Swap

I joined a Sewing Room Swap on flickr where you make one large item and one small item for your swap partner. It is a secret swap so they don't know that you are making for them, so it's a lot of digging around and stalking and seeing what their taste is like.  You make a mosaic at the start of the swap and give general idea about what you might like, but really, it is up to you as to what you make.  I can't reveal who my partner is yet as she hasn't received her items, but I am in awe of her work. She makes beautiful things and always sends such amazing swap packages, so the pressure was on!

I decided to make a Social Tote and added a little pincushion that is included with the pattern.  

It needed something more so I added a thread catcher

And I thought a little dumpling would finish it off nicely

Inside the dumpling


And then I thought, no it still needs something else, so I whipped up this reversible sewing machine cover with a block from Patchwork 163

And the other side of the cover is Tula Pink's Parisville clamshells quilted using serpentine stitch.

And it all together...

A Lovely Year of Finishes - March goal

About 18 months ago when granny square quilts were the thing all over blogland, I joined a granny square swap on flickr.   There were 24 members in each group.  We had pre-allocated colours, but could choose what colour combo we wanted to make.  I have a ton of blue and green so went for this colorway. We could also choose whether we went for snow, white or charcoal backgrounds, but there could only be 8 members in each colorway. We made 24 blocks (8 white, 8 show and 8 charcoal) and duly dispatched them off to the swap leader to be sorted out and  sent to the members.

 

The tutorial we used was one by Katy at I'm a Ginger Monkey. So easy to follow and much easier than piecing a ton of tiny squares!  

I managed to get the squares sewn together but that is as far as I got. My goal for this month is to finish this quilt.

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